Spell, House Projects

Site-specific Installation, 2007

House Projects was a series of seven exhibitions spanning five months over four cities, three countries, and two continents; with the participation of seven coordinators/curators, forty-nine artists and eight writers. Self-initiated by practitioners outside of the resources of an institutional venue, it was conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, curators and critics, intended to eschew established or hierarchical roles.

House Projects’ ambition was to explore alternative spatial and temporal relationships between artist and site, artworks and audience, the private and the public. Based upon the recognition of an ‘art-local’ audience, a peer-to-peer audience, the make up of which being small groupings on an international scale who act as an important reception point in the dissemination and spread of cultural ideas, each exhibition was developed by an individual co-ordinator, who curated an exhibition in their house (or in response to their housing situation).

Spell, a single channel video installation, was commissioned for Lighthouse. Lighthouse was curated by David Beattie and Chris Fite-Wassilak and took place in a small caravan in The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, from the 20th to the 24th of June, 2007.